| Innovate or Stagnate Workshop (FREE) - next event October 2009
With partners EBV and TTP (click here to download the PDF flyer)
"It was a good opportunity to get to know Axiom and its partners as well as meeting other innovative companies."
"Expectations were met and even surpassed; all the content was relevant to our needs."
"I found the day extremely informative and it’s always good to meet innovative companies that value partnerships. It was a relaxed setting and I particularly liked the open format where questions and discussion were positively encouraged. The tour was first class, too."
"The presentations were most informative without being too formal and the audience participation was good to see."
"The tour was key to the visit, although the morning’s presentations were very interesting."
“Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.” William Pollard
Periods of economic downturn can be the best or the worst of times. Cutting costs and margins whilst looking for increased sales is tough. Many companies face mounting pressures to innovate; yet finding ways to actually enable innovation remains a challenge for most.
One of the keys is to innovate by using design and manufacturing partnerships to uncover new ways to make your products functionally rich with less cash whilst decreasing time to market.
Of course you need the right partners with the appropriate expertise and the right product range.
Customer demands are increasing and product life cycles are reducing . The cost of a product is largely fixed by the design: in many cases the best way to innovate or increase cost effectiveness is to improve the design and get it right with manufacturing, procurement and test in mind.
Supporting your organisation with up to the minute market and technical expertise is now more important then ever.
This workshop, the first in the 2009 Innovate or Stagnate seminar series brings together a number of companies who have collaborated to bring about innovation and create innovative solutions for their customers.
Find out how through our partnership you can uncover and develop innovative solutions, at lower cost and in shorter timescales.
Operations and Production Directors, Senior Managers, R&D Managers, Designers. Those involved in innovation, supply chains, new product development and strategic change.
10:00 Coffee and Registration
10:30 Welcome and Introduction - Product development challenges
10:45 Developing partnerships
Looking at:- Challenges :: Developing opportunities :: Implementation
11:05 Break
11:20 Theory to practice – A case example of design and partnership innovation with Axiom and TTP
11:40 Applying DFx* to increase innovation
Looking at how to :- Reduce the number of prototypes :: Reduce number of components :: Reduce risk of component obsolescence :: Reduce design time and associated costs :: Reduce manufacturing and quality costs :: Reduce approval costs :: Increase time to market
12:00 Improving cost effectiveness via product design
Looking at:- New technologies (access to and implementing) :: Longevity of design :: Improving cost effectiveness :: Access to manufacturers knowledge base
Lunch and networking
13:00 Development tools and reference designs in action - demonstrations
- Hands on demonstrations with EBV people available to discuss any requirements or questions that you have
- Optional factory tour – see Axiom in action
15:00: Close
- Lunch and refreshments will be provided. Please advise us of any dietary requirements.
- Ample onsite parking.
- We are a secure site and will require confirmation of names prior to event, cameras and camera phones are not allowed into secure area, lockers will be provided.
*DFx = design for manufacturing, test and procurement
- Why you should develop partnerships for competitive advantage
- What is design for excellence and how you can improve product designs and reduce cost
- Why the OEM and manufacturer should collaborate at the outset of any product design project
- How to achieve cost effective designs before you go into manufacture
- How to effectively incorporate reference designs into your product development strategy
- Why a strong supply chain is essential to your business
It is always difficult giving up your time to come to a workshop/seminar. I always ask myself several questions when deciding whether to venture out:
- What will I get out of the workshop/seminar?
- Will it provide me with some information that can help with some of the strategies that I am putting in place?
- Will I meet anyone who could be of benefit to my organisation?
This day will suit you if your organisation has any of the following challenges or needs:-
- Can see market opportunities that you cannot respond to
- Are stagnating in the market place and losing competitive advantage
- Struggling to get products to market
- Need additional resource to get new products to market
- Need to add more value into your products at the same or less cost
- Interested in standard off the shelf solutions (reference designs) to which you can add your unique value and expertise
- Need to make changes but unsure of who to select as new partners
- Need design and manufacturing partners who are stable in the market place with a strong supply chain
- Problems that need to be solved fast
- Opportunities that need to be acted upon now
- Challenges from competitors, customers and suppliers that you need to meet more efficiently and profitably
- There will be other companies attending that you would like to meet.
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